2020 Accepted Research Papers
The Symposium on Electronic Crime Research is an annual event hosted by the APWG. The event’s continuing goal is to promote cybercrime research by providing an venue for university researchers to publish their work. The program has published 100’s of papers specifically focused on fraud and crime in the cyber world.
Averages Don’t Characterise the Heavy Tails of Ransoms
Eireann Leverett ; Eric Jardine ; Erin Burns ; Ankit Gangwal ; Dan Geer
Analysis of Darknet Market Activity as a Country-Specific, Socio-Economic and Technological Phenomenon
Anela Sutanrikulu ; Sandra Czajkowska ; Jens Grossklags
Beneath the radar: Exploring the economics of business fraud via underground markets
Carlos H. Gannan ; Ugur Akyazi ; Elena Tsvetkova
Empirical analysis of losses from business-email compromise
Geoffrey Simpson ; Tyler Moore
SemanticPhish: A Semantic-based Scanning System for Early Detection of Phishing Attacks
Qian Cui ; Guy-Vincent Jourdan ; Gregor v. Bochmann ; Iosif-Viorel Onut
Don’t Fish in Troubled Waters! Characterizing Coronavirus-themed Cryptocurrency Scams
Pengcheng Xia ; Haoyu Wang ; Xiapu Luo ; Lei Wu, Yajin Zhou ; Guangdong Bai ; Guoai Xu ; Gang Huang ; Xuanzhe Liu
When will my PLC support Mirai? The security economics of large-scale attacks against Internet-connected ICS devices
Michael Dodson ; Alastair R. Beresford ; Daniel R. Thomas
Phishing With A Darknet: Imitation of Onion Services
Frederick Barr-Smith ; Joss Wright
Resource Networks of Pet Scam Websites
Benjamin Price ; Matthew Edwards
Scam Pandemic: How Attackers Exploit Public Fear through Phishing
Marzieh Bitaab ; Haehyun Cho ; Adam Oest ; Penghui Zhang ; Zhibo Sun ; Rana Pourmohamad ; Doowon Kim ; Tiffany Bao ; Ruoyu Wang ; Yan Shoshitaishvili ; Adam Doupe ; Gail-Joon Ahn
Checkout Checkup: Misuse of Payment Data from Web Skimming
Phoebe Rouge ; Christina Yeung ; Daniel Salsburg ; Joseph A. Calandrin
WordyThief: A Malicious Spammer
Dr. Renée Burton ; Vadym Tymchenko ; Nicholas Sundvall ; Minh Hoang ; Jim Mozley ; Michael Josten
Ten years of attacks on companies using visual impersonation of domain names
Geoffrey Simpson ; Tyler Moore ; Richard Clayton